A crane lifts bags of rice into a cargo ship for export to Japan at the Port of West Sacramento in Sacramento, California, U.S. Sales of U.S. goods abroad have jumped 29 percent in the nine quarters of the recovery. Photographer: Ken James/Bloomberg
A crane lifts bags of rice into a cargo ship for export to Japan at the Port of West Sacramento in Sacramento, California, U.S. Sales of U.S. goods abroad have jumped 29 percent in the nine quarters of the recovery. Photographer: Ken James/Bloomberg
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